Crooks and priers

In 1977, British media personality David Frost—then best known as a comedian—talked former President Richard M. Nixon into a series of TV interviews in which Frost got the Prez to kinda-sorta tacitly admit wrongdoing in the Watergate scandal. Playwright Peter Morgan gives the background in his 2006 work Frost/Nixon, which receives its Chicago premiere this week at TimeLine with Terry Hamilton (pictured, left) and Andrew Carter (right). Look for Morgan’s follow-up, Couric/Palin, in 2037.

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